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\n\"Brian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jazz Theologian<\/b>:  I’m assuming that you
\nagree that the emerging church is not just a renewal movement for young
\nmiddle-class Caucasian Christians.  So here are a few questions so that we
\ncan see how emergent Christianity addresses the issues of following Jesus
\nwithin the urban context.<\/i><\/p>\n

How does A New Kind of Christianity <\/span>help urban
\nChristians address issues such as high incarceration rate among young men,
\nsubstandard schools and fatherlessness while at the same time there is a the
\nproliferation of churches preaching a prosperity gospel?<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n<\/p>\n

McLaren<\/b>:  <\/span>In
\nNKoCy, I’m trying to help us get a deeper and broader vision of the gospel. The
\ngospel that many people believe in says very little about issues of justice and
\npeace in this life; it focuses on personal morality in this life and salvation
\nfrom hell after this life. It would be very concerned about, say,
\nhomosexuality, but not very concerned about systemic racism and economic
\nexclusion and oppression. It would say a lot about personal morality but not so
\nmuch about social morality. I’m proposing that the gospel of the kingdom of God
\n– the gospel Jesus preached (and Paul too, I propose) – is about God’s will
\nbeing done on earth as in heaven, and so that has everything to do with the
\ncity, with racism, with incarceration, with unemployment, with equity in
\neducation, and so on. I’m also suggesting that the eschatologies that many of
\nus were taught – eschatologies that predict the world will get worse and worse
\nand then be destroyed – work against working for the healing of this world,
\nincluding our cities. So I would say that this book, along with Everything Must
\nChange, would be of real interest to folks engaged with urban issues.<\/p>\n

Join the groove…what do you think about how Christianity relates to these issues?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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